Stuff no one would believe...

[jimmy40]

I got drunk with Lee Majors and scored with a couple of his rejects.

 

[pupulehaole]

I've swam with a pod of dolphins, getting about 3yards away from them.
That's all I got haha

 

[jubal]

I've swam with a pod of dolphins, getting about 3yards away from them.
That's all I got haha

You must be good old son to be able to stay that far ahead of them before they could catch you..

 

[the kid 05]

8. I was in a dark bar with that man many years later, and I had a gun. I considered murder at that moment.

how you did not do that I have no idea...

 

[Hostile]

how you did not do that I have no idea...

My only answer is, my Mom would not want me to. Beyond that, I have none. I didn't even deck him and I so easily could have and walked away. No one in that bar could have stopped me from mopping the floor with him. But I respect her.

 

[Hoofbite]

Yep I'm the only person not looking at him, on the left. This was shot during a scene, I had no clue they were taking a pic.

Had you been looking, you may have been on the road to a Hollywood career.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I was once on a hijacked plane
I met King Hussein of Jordan
I ran teleprompter for George HW Bush
I once flattened Jimmy Buffett
I had an astronaut sign a pair of wooden shoes in Holland
I sang on a country gospel album
Kenny G once told me to "**** Off"
I've had lunch with Cliff Harris on several occasions
I've ridden in the Goodyear blimp
I was running camera when this happened...
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Your turn...

We need to party.

:shades:

 

[Phoenix]

Fascinating stuff. Would love to hear more about the hijacked plane incident and the shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Not much for me:

* I've been onboard a space shuttle, the Enterprise
* I was on the flight line working a booth at Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, when the planes collided above the crowds, killing a lot of people
* I have sang on a recorded album

 

[LeonDixson]

Wow. No one will top his list.

1. I have been shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.
2. I have never seen one half of my biological family, only a couple of pictures.
3. Three years ago I found a biological half sister online by accident and we have become friends.
4. I have been in a street legal car at 175 miles per hour.
5. I have seen almost a hundred dead bodies in my lifetime and the huge majority of those were before I turned 26.
6. My birth certificate is dated over 6 years after my birth.
7. My Mother was a victim of attempted murder and was left crippled the rest of her life.
8. I was in a dark bar with that man many years later, and I had a gun. I considered murder at that moment.

You better get that birth certificate corrected. That could be a problem come social security time.

 

[AsthmaField]

Not a whole lot for me really:

*I have been asked to "go pick up a package" by a member of the New Orleans mafia. Where I would get paid $15,000 to go get "it" and bring "it" back to him. I (wisely) said no and never knew where or what "it" was.

*I once played football (backyard variety) in a hurricane.

*Because my house was coming apart, I ran down the street while holding my kids hands during the height of hurricane Katrina.

*I once got to the top of a cliff while rock climbing and was stuck. There was no going back the way I had climbed and all I could do was jump for a root that was hanging over the edge. It was a hit or miss thing where I either made it or I didn't. Luckily, I made it and lived to tell the story.

That's about it.

 

[trickblue]

Elaborate please

It wasn't your typical on-board hijacking...

In 1972, my parents and I were traveling from Amsterdam to the Middle East. We left on a DC 5 very late for an overnight trip. At 6:00am we were traveling over Syria. Syrian Air Control ordered our plane down. Our pilot refused as we had filed a flight plan and were in non-disputed air space. After several refusals, Syrian Air Control sent up three Russian Migs after our plane. The deployed one on each wing and one on top of us and forced us to the ground. Syrian forces boarded the plane with machine guns and proceeded to take what they wanted. Our flight plan had us landing in Amman, Jordan for a couple of days, followed by a trip to Tel-Aviv. The pilot gave us strict instructions not to tell the military that we were going to Tel-Aviv and only tell them we were going to Amman...

After sitting on the ground for 3+ hours they allowed us to take off after the American Consulate intervened...

 

[Idgit]

I can pick up a quarter without using my hands. But my pants have to be off, first.

Believe!

 

[big dog cowboy]

I can pick up a quarter without using my hands. But my pants have to be off, first.

Believe!

:eekmouse:

 

[Hostile]

You better get that birth certificate corrected. That could be a problem come social security time.

It won't be a problem. It was due to an adoption. My current last name was not my birth last name. It isn't signed by the doctor who delivered me either. I believe he had died by then. His name is just typed in where it says signature, but it is authorized by the State of New Mexico.

 

[Hostile]

Fascinating stuff. Would love to hear more about the hijacked plane incident and the shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Dad had a boat and a lot of friends. We were on a lake in New Mexico called Elephant Butte and were several miles from the dock area. A storm started coming in and my Dad was a little bit drunk. He determined (wrongly) that it would be safer to get everybody back to the dock in one trip than to try and cross the lake twice. Thus he overloaded the boat.

I still remember thinking I was going to die as waves crashed over the boat and started filling it up. Finally they determined that the only way we were going to survive was to try for this small island. We barely made it but the boat sank. Only the antenna was sticking up out of the water.

Mom sent my brother, another boy in the group, and I out for firewood. She had my baby sister in her arms trying like crazy to warm her up. We rounded up enough for a decent fire and all the drunk adults huddled around it freezing.

Pretty soon a ranger's boat came to inspect and one of my Dad's drunk friends tried to swim out to the boat. He nearly drowned. When the Ranger got to shore finally after rescuing him, he told my Mom and us kids to get on the boat. Mom told him that we were fine and to get all the damned drunks out of there.

He finally realized she was serious and he left her behind with 3 of her own kids, including one who was an 8 month old baby, and the other boy. His Mom went on the boat.

6 hours later it was finally safe enough for them to come get us. I have often thought that was the beginning of the real end of my parent's marriage.

 

[casmith07]

It wasn't your typical on-board hijacking...

In 1972, my parents and I were traveling from Amsterdam to the Middle East. We left on a DC 5 very late for an overnight trip. At 6:00am we were traveling over Syria. Syrian Air Control ordered our plane down. Our pilot refused as we had filed a flight plan and were in non-disputed air space. After several refusals, Syrian Air Control sent up three Russian Migs after our plane. The deployed one on each wing and one on top of us and forced us to the ground. Syrian forces boarded the plane with machine guns and proceeded to take what they wanted. Our flight plan had us landing in Amman, Jordan for a couple of days, followed by a trip to Tel-Aviv. The pilot gave us strict instructions not to tell the military that we were going to Tel-Aviv and only tell them we were going to Amman...

After sitting on the ground for 3+ hours they allowed us to take off after the American Consulate intervened...

I have never been a fan of Syria, and I have stories from some run-ins in DC with Syrians, but this definitely takes the cake.

 

[Hoofbite]

It won't be a problem. It was due to an adoption. My current last name was not my birth last name. It isn't signed by the doctor who delivered me either. I believe he had died by then. His name is just typed in where it says signature, but it is authorized by the State of New Mexico.

Don't ever run for president, Hos.

I hear there's a whole flock of nutjobs who like birth certificate controversies.

 

[tecolote]

I was waiting to use a phone booth one time and was waiting for the guy who was using it to finish, he then turned around and tipped his just a little, I could not believe who it was...

Emilio Estevez.

I gathered all the courage I had and just went, "Emiliooooooo", it was awesome.